Christina "Tina" Barnhill is the Acting SBIR/STTR Operations Manager at the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). She has 25 years of experience delivering prime results and best practices, and is an experienced, multi-disciplined, Department of Defense (DoD) civilian with extensive focus on small business efforts, Industry, and DoD major weapons systems acquisition for small businesses. Tina develops and executes SBIR/STTR program strategies, best practices for small business resources, and assists small businesses with ways to best market their capabilities to the Missile Defense Agency. In 2013, she established a Commercialization and Transition Office within the MDA SBIR/STTR Program Office, and has extensive experience with the DoD Mentor Protégé Program. She is the acting Operations Manager of the MDA SBIR/STTR Program.

Tina earned her Master of Science degree in Project Management from the Florida Institute of Technology in 2009.